he was interested in the economy and policy. he made sure there was the money that we could hire and expand and become the strongest program here. that was how i got to be the junior guy. when i got here shortly after i got here, again with some heavy influence from george, i had the influence on the william simon chair. sidney weintraub. a lot of you remember sydney. 30 years ago he published his famous book, free trade with mexico? he raised the idea that trade with mexico could be a development engine. that would it would help to change the nature of the mexico and u.s. relationship. that was a vision. he saw that after years of working in economic support in the state department. state department ran trade in those days. he really articulated it persuasively so that a generation of american leaders were really thinking about what nafta could do. that made a big difference. there was one other component. the senior mexicanist. she was the senior on the mexican project. when nafta was on the horizon, she did something so well.